TV/Movies Megathread

[The Brain]

Watched most of "The Man Who Knew Infinity" last night.  Indian self taught mathematical savant goes to England to be all mathematical and stuff.

It's a lot like that editing the novel movie I talked about earlier.  Good cast (Jeremy Irons and Slumdog Millionaire), nicely shot and directed, etc, etc. but it's simply impossible to give a shit about two guys sitting in an office talking about proofs to theorems.  And they spend a lot of time doing that because apparently that's all he did in real life.

Not every movie can be Shanghai Noon, Yi.

[Admiral Yi]

hahahahahaha good one.

[The Brain]

[Eddie Teach]

As much as Jackie Chan tries to be in all of them.

[Ed Anger]

The new MST3K. Just awful.

[CountDeMoney]

The new MST3K. Just awful.

Not even Patton Oswalt could save it. 

[frunk]

I've enjoyed it. 

[Ed Anger]

I've enjoyed it.

Me and Seedy will pray for you.

[frunk]

Me and Seedy will pray for you.

I'll agree that the intros and breaks aren't very good, but they've always sucked.  All of the mads are dull/annoying rather than funny, and Day and Oswalt live down to that expectation.  The good bits are in the movies.

[CountDeMoney]

You probably like the Star Wars prequels, too.  And the reedited versions of the original trilogy.  Weirdo.

[Savonarola]

American Movie (1999)

Even better than what I remembered.  Mark Borchardt with his boundless ambition and limited resources; and his cheerful burn-out best friend Mike Schank are endlessly fascinating. 

Coven (that's COH-ven, not cuh-ven) is included as a bonus feature.  Given what Borchardt had to work with (and his many personal problems) that turned out pretty well.  It probably wouldn't be very good if you just saw it on its own, but after seeing American Movie it's worthwhile.  I assume it's a lot easier to make something like that today; back then that was quite a project.

[frunk]

You probably like the Star Wars prequels, too.  And the reedited versions of the original trilogy.  Weirdo.

Nope, the prequels were shit and the reedits pointless wastes.  My heresy is feeling lukewarm towards even the good Star Wars movies.

[CountDeMoney]

You probably like the Star Wars prequels, too.  And the reedited versions of the original trilogy.  Weirdo.

Nope, the prequels were shit and the reedits pointless wastes.  My heresy is feeling lukewarm towards even the good Star Wars movies.

They were running the movies on TBS yesterday;  For decades, do not recall Vader ever saying "Noooo!" when he was tossing the Emperor over the railing in ROTJ.  But there he was.

Stupid Lucas.

[viper37]

For decades, do not recall Vader ever saying "Noooo!" when he was tossing the Emperor over the railing in ROTJ. 

it's hard to recall something that wasn't there

the special effects are nice, but the edits, it's something I would have put in the extras.

[crazy canuck]

I really enjoyed this season of Last Kingdom